Interior-conduit outlet-box.



No. 70l,l37. Patented May 27, I902.

W F. BOSSERT. INTERIOR CONDUIT OUTLET BOX.

(Application filed Mar. 25, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM F. BOSSERT, OF UTICA, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR T THE BOSSERT ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, OF UTICA, NEW YORK.

lNTERlOR-CONDUIT OUTLET-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,137, dated May 27, 1902.

Application filed March 25, 1902. Serial No. 99.869. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.- In the drawings, A is a sheet-metal box Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BOSSERT, struck up in dies in a manner well underresiding atUtica, in the county of Oneida and stood, and B is a cover adapted to be locked State of NewYork, have invented certain Imto the box by the cotter-pins (1, extending provementsin Interior-Conduit Outlet-Boxes, through the ears 0 of the box, which project 5 5 of which the following is a specification. through holes in the cover. The cover ordi- This invention relates to metal boxes emnarily has a collar a standing up around the ployed in connection with the systems of incentral orifice 0 therein. terior conduits arranged in modern buildings D is a lamp support or bracket, having a for the conveyance of insulated conductors to screw-threaded stud or boss 7t at its upper the various parts of the building to the transpart, while its lower part terminates in three lating devices utilizing the electric current, or more arms spreading out, as shown. In such as electric lamps, motors, to. In such each arm is a hole through which extends a installations the boxes are employed foravabolt 7t, having a slotted head. The lower I 5 riety of purposes, such as switches, pushface m of the bracket is hollow or concave buttons, and electric-light fixtures. and rests upon a plate E, having a convexed The invention has especial reference to upper surface, also provided with arms Z, metal boxes to which conductors are run for through which the bolts 7c extend and are the purposes of connection with electric then threadedinto the bottomwall of thebox.

2o lamps, such as wall and ceiling lamps. In The arms 7' of the bracket are separated from suchboxes thereis supported anelectric-lamp the arms 1 of the plate by a space in order support or bracket whose base is secured to that the bracket may be tilted over in any dithe inner surface of the wall of the box, either rection and secured firmly by the bolts 7;. the side or the bottom wall, and near the This portion of the drawings is more fully do 25 opening in the box-cover the bracket termiscribed in an application for patent filed by nates in a screw-threaded stud or boss, upon me March 19, 1902, Serial No. 99,014. which the lamp-fixture is screwed. As the C is a dish-shaped outer metal portion 10- boxes are secured within the walls or particated in the orifice 0 of the cover 13, struck tions before the stucco or plaster is put upon up from a piece of sheet metal, and has an 3o the walls or the lathing, it is frequently found outwardly-extending rim 1), and its bottom is that the face of the box is not in line with perforated by the holes g. A hole punched the face of the wall after the same is plastered in the center of the bottom is enlarged by and finished. Consequently thelamp-fixture forcing outwardly the metal around the hole stands awry with the face of the wall and prefro form a lug c, the interior of which is screw- 3 5 sents a staggered appearance, which is very threaded. It is of course not necessary to deunsightly. scribe in detail the exact sequence of the The object of the invention is to provide several manipulations for producing the inmeans for remedying the non-alinement of nor and outer box portions A and C, as they the box with the finished wall and whereby will be readily understood by those familiar 4'0 the lamp-bracket may be adjusted to a true with the art. The walls p of the part C are angle with the wall, as I will now proceed to made smaller in diameter than the internal describe and claim. diameter of the collar a of the cover B, so

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is that the outer portion C may rock back and a top View of the invention. Fig. 2 is a crossforth therein to a slight degree. The stud e 45 section of the previous figure, and Fig. 8 is of the part C is screwed down the boss 72 a a section of a modification. suitable distance andis followed by the I prefer to describe theinvention as applied clamp or binding-nut f. The box A and its to a conduit-box struck up from a piece of cover B are secured within a wall or partii'nalleable metal; but it is applicable to boxes 'tion, and conduits are entered through holes 50 made of cast metal also. in the side or bottom of the box in a common Ice and usual manner, and the stucco or plaster is applied to the walls or lathing of the wall, whose finished surface is indicated by the dotted line a: m. The lamp-fixture bracket D may then be secured in the box A and the part 0 screwed onto the boss 7L. If the upper surface of the part 0 should not be in line with the face of the plaster or 03, any fixture, as J in dotted lines, screwed onto the boss 71, would not present a true appearance, and to adjust the face of the part C with the wall a screw-driver is extended through the holes 9 and the bolts loosened, so that the part 0 can he tilted about, the outer box portion and the support D rolling upon the curved plate E, and when the alinement is found the screws are tightened up.

In this case, as in the application referred to, various modifications of the curved surfaces m and the contiguous surface of the plate E may be made, and Fig. 3 shows a modification in the device for varying the angle of the outer box portion (J with the inner box portion A. In this case the curved surface m is located upon the end of the support or bracket D, and it is supported upon the upper surface of the bottom wall of the box portion A, the bolts lo securing the parts together. The box portion 0 is thus carried by the support D and is adjusted toward the inner box part A by turningv the same up or down the screw-head or bolt 7b, which also serves to hold the lamp-fixture J, and the said outer box portion 0 is directly and positively supported by the part D, which is bolted to the bottom of the inner box portion A, from which point the angular adjustment of the outer box to the inner box is made. There is a decided advantage in the adjustment of the alinement from the bottom of the box A, for a very slight movement of the bearing-surfaces there produces a large variation of angle of the outer face of the portion 0, and the adjustment is very easily and quickly performed.

I claim as my invention- 1. An interior-conduit box composed of an inner box portion to which the conduits are attached, provided with a cover having a central orifice; an outer box portion of less diameter than the orifice of the cover, and located therein, with a screw-threaded lug in the center of its bottom wall; with means for directly and positively supporting the said outer box portion from the bottom of the inner box portion, and means for adjusting the distance of one box portion to the other, and means also for adjusting the relative angle of one box portion to the other, as set forth.

2. An interior-conduit box, composed of an inner box portion provided with a coverhaving a central orifice; an outer box portion of less diameter than the orifice of the cover and located therein, having an outer rim. and a screw-threaded lug in the center of its bottom wall, and other openings in said wall as described; with means for directly and positively supporting the said outer box portion from the bottom of the inner box portion, and means for adjusting the box portions toward one another and means also for adjustingthe relative angle of the outer box portion to the inner portion, as set forth.

3. An interior-conduit box composed of an inner box portion to which the conduits enter; a lamp-fixtu re support provided with a screwthreaded stud whose inner end has a supportingsurface adjustably held to a second surface in the bottom of the said inner box portion; a cover secured to said inner portion, having a central orifice; an outer box portion within the central orifice of the cover and ad justably supported upon the said threaded stud; with means at the bottom of said fixture-support for adjusting the said support and outer box portion at any angle.

a. An interior-conduit box composed of an inner box portion to which the conduits are attached; a cover for the said box portion having a central orifice; an outer box portion adapted to enterthe said cover-orifice freely, having a threaded lug in the center of its bottom; with means for adjustably supporting the said outer box portion to and from the said cover, and for tilting the same universally at any angle, consisting of an upright support whose outer end is screw-threaded and engaging the said threaded lug of the outer box portion, the support also adapted to sustain a lamp-fixture, the inner end of the support provided with adjustable means for holding the same tilted from the bottom wall of the inner box portion.

5. An interior-conduit box composed of an inner portion to which the conduits enter; a cover for the said inner portion, provided with a central orifice; an outer portion with substantially upright walls terminating in an outward rim, a screw nut or lug in the center of the bottom wall, which is also otherwise perforated as described; with a lamp-fixture support whose inner end has a supportingsurface adjustably held to a second surface in the bottom of the inner box portion and adapted to rotate thereupon, the outer end of said support consisting of a screw-threaded stud passing through and engaging with the said screw thread or lug, and a set-nut upon the upper side of said lug.

6. An interior-conduit box composed of an inner portion to which the conduits enter; a cover for the said inner portion, having a central orifice; and an outer portion provided with a screw-lug in the center of its bottom wall; with a lamp-fixture support having a screw-threaded stud projecting through and engaging said screw-lug, and whose inner end has a curved supporting-surface adjustably held. to a second surface in the bottom IIO name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 22d day of March, 1902.

WILLIAM F. BOSSERT. Witnesses:

WM. H. MATTEN, WM. H. GRAY. 

